Author: Rob Stolk
Date: 9 September 2026
Claim
I claim that physical reality can be described from one fundamental relational principle, without requiring absolute zero, infinity, independently existing fundamental particles, or separate fundamental laws for space, time, matter and energy.
1. Zero and infinity do not physically exist
Absolute zero and absolute infinity are not physical states. Reality never reaches nothing and never reaches infinity. It consists of continuing relational balance and change. The symbol 0 is therefore not treated as a physical quantity representing absolute nothingness. At the fundamental level it is replaced by relation:
0 = :
where : signifies the minimum relational condition rather than numerical division.
The minimum balanced relation is:
: = 1:1
and any differentiated physical state can consequently be represented as:
a:b
A physical state therefore exists by virtue of relation, not as an isolated quantity.
2. Only the present state is physically operative
Only the present relational state is physically operative. The past is the realised relational path through which the present state was reached. The past does not continue to exist as a separate physical domain. Its relevance lies in the structure and pattern it has left in the present state. What is called the future is not a pre-existing physical state. It is an extrapolation made in the present from patterns recognised in the realised path.
Accordingly:
past = realised path
present = current relational state
future = extrapolated continuation
Prediction is therefore a present act of relational pattern recognition.
3. Space and time are continuing relations
Space is not an empty container in which physical objects are subsequently placed. Time is not an independent external axis or clock through which objects move. Physical reality consists of continuing relational change. Space is the relational extension within which this change can propagate. Time is read from the developmental relation between successive complete states. Therefore neither space nor time needs to be introduced as a separate fundamental engine.
A transition can be written as:
a:b → a′:b′
The relation between these successive states constitutes physical development and thereby makes time observable.
4. The Wamaton is the smallest transferable physical element
The smallest physically transferable relational element is the Wamaton. A Wamaton is not a conventional point particle. It is the minimum physical carrier of relational balance, tension, orientation and change. It contains within itself the recursive relational organization called the Wamagenome.
The Wamagenome is not restricted to the Wamaton scale. The same relational organization can recur at larger scales. The Wamaton is therefore both a minimum physical element and the carrier of the rule by which larger relational structures can emerge.
5. Physical two-dimensional structure has a minimum thickness
A physically realised two-dimensional structure cannot have zero thickness, because physical zero does not exist. The minimum physical thickness of a two-dimensional structure is one Wamaton.
Therefore:
physical 2D = two-dimensional relation + one Wamaton thickness
A mathematically dimensionless surface is an abstraction. A physical surface must possess sufficient depth to carry tension and permit relational transfer. This one-Wamaton thickness provides the minimum physical depth required for orientation, interaction, propagation and closure. It is the transition by which a relational surface can participate in three-dimensional physical formation.
6. The Wamaton has recursive spatial structure
The spatial organization of the Wamaton is represented through the recursive relation associated with:
π³
This does not mean that the numerical value of π creates physical reality. Geometry precedes numerical description. π³ is the spatial expression of an underlying recursive organization: a three-directional manifestation of the same relational structure contained in the Wamagenome. Numbers and constants are therefore descriptions of relational geometry rather than independent causes of that geometry.
7. Difference produces tension
Starting from local balance:
1:1
a relational difference produces:
a:b
The difference between the two sides is physically expressed as relational tension. Tension does not require an independently introduced force. It follows directly from departure from local balance.
Continued relational change therefore follows the sequence:
: → a:b → tension → shift → a′:b′
A shift is not movement relative to an absolute external background. It is a change of the relational state itself.
8. Transfer is limited by the Wamagenome
Relational tension can propagate through the recursively shifting Wamaton field. However, propagation cannot occur arbitrarily fast. There is a maximum rate at which relational tension can be transferred from one relational state to another while continuity of the Wamagenome is preserved.
Therefore the maximum physically observable propagation speed is not required as an independently imposed universal rule. It emerges from the transfer limit of the fundamental recursive structure itself. The maximum propagation speed can therefore be stated as:
the maximum rate at which relational tension can be transferred while preserving continuity through the recursively shifting Wamagenome.
Thus the limiting speed belongs fundamentally to the capacity of the relational field to transfer tension, not to the motion of an independently existing particle through empty space.
9. Closure produces observable structure
A relational disturbance need not immediately constitute an independent physical object. Observable structure emerges when relational dynamics achieve sufficient local closure. Closure locally maintains a relational pattern within the surrounding field.
What is conventionally perceived as a particle, material object or bounded physical entity can therefore be interpreted as a locally closed relational structure within the continuing field. The formed structure never becomes fundamentally separate from the field from which it emerged. The distinction between field and formed structure is relational rather than absolute.
10. Field and formed state produce emergent projection
The same principle can be expressed as:
field : formed state → emergent projection
or, within WAMA terminology:
BIAS1 : BIAS2 → BIAS3
BIAS1 represents the field dynamics.
BIAS2 represents formed dynamics within that field.
BIAS3 is the projection that emerges from their relation.
BIAS3 need not exist as an independently stored third fundamental magnitude. It emerges from the relation itself.
Observation is consequently not required to add a separate physical reality to the system. What is observed is the projection produced by existing relational dynamics.
11. The same relation recurs fractally
The fundamental law does not change when scale changes. A relation produced at one level can itself participate as a side of a relation at another level.
Thus:
a:b
can become part of:
(a:b):(c:d)
and the same principle can recur through successive scales.
After a scale transition, local balance can again be referenced from:
1:1
The universe therefore does not require fundamentally different laws at successively larger or smaller scales.
The same Wamagenome can recur fractally.
The sequence is:
local balance → differentiation → tension → shift → closure
→ scale transition → renewed local balance
This process can continue recursively.
12. Energy emerges from relational change
Energy is not required as an independently existing substance. It is associated with change in relational tension and state.
Within Wamatica this principle is expressed as:
E = Δ²
where Δ represents relational change rather than change measured against an externally imposed absolute background.
Energy is consequently an emergent measure of dynamic relational change within the recursively shifting field.
13. Matter, motion and physical structure are emergent
Matter does not need to be fundamental. Motion does not need to be fundamental. Separate force-carrying entities do not need to be fundamental.
Observable physical structures can emerge from recurring patterns of relational tension, shift and closure.
At every scale, the underlying condition remains relational:
a:b
The manifestations differ because the relational pattern, scale, orientation, closure and path differ. The underlying rule does not.
14. The universe is a recursively shifting relational field
Physical reality can therefore be represented by the continuing sequence:
:
↓
1:1
↓ differentiation
a:b
↓
relational tension
↓
shift
↓
a′:b′
↓
closure
↓
formed structure
↓
fractal scale transition
↓
new local 1:1 relation
This process does not require an absolute beginning or final state. It requires only the presently existing relational state and its capacity to continue shifting.
15. Theory of Everything claim
I therefore claim that:
All observable physical dynamics can, in principle, be derived from the recursive shifting of relational balance carried by the Wamaton and organized by the Wamagenome.
Absolute zero and infinity are not physical states. The fundamental condition is relation, locally expressed as 1:1 and differentiated as a:b. Only the present relational state is physically operative; the past is its realised developmental path and the future is a present extrapolation of patterns contained in that path.
A physically realised two-dimensional structure necessarily has a minimum thickness of one Wamaton. The Wamaton's recursive spatial organization is expressed through π³, while its Wamagenome provides the same fractal relational rule at successive scales.
Difference in relational balance produces tension; tension produces shift; shift can produce closure; closure produces observable structure; and a closed structure can recursively participate in a larger relational state.
The maximum propagation speed in nature is the maximum rate at which relational tension can be transferred through the recursively shifting Wamagenome while preserving relational continuity.
Space, time, energy, matter, motion, fields and observable physical structures are therefore not required as mutually independent foundations. They are emergent manifestations of one continuing recursively shifting relational balance.
Claimed by:
Rob Stolk
9 September 2026
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